Summit Entertainment’s road-rage actioner Drive Angry 3-D won’t roll into theaters until early next year, but star Nicolas Cage was already revving up interest for the film at last weekend’s Wondercon convention in San Francisco.

Cage crowed about the film’s authentic 3-D (no conversion in post), its retro ultra-violent vibe, and hinted at a paranormal plot twist that up until now had remained a secret.

He tells MTV:

What’s really cool is that the 3-D is from scratch — all the cameras are 3-D. It’s not going to be tacked onto the movie afterwards. Patrick [Lussier], the director, is very excited about it.

It’s the first one [like this]; it’s like if you got to see an old ’70s action movie, but in 3-D. We’re doing something semi-historical, because it’s the first 3-D movie shot [in the] style of a ’70s action film. You could see Charles Bronson or Eastwood [starring in a film like this] in those days.

There’s a supernatural element to it as well, which is keeping with what my interests are right now. When I play supernatural characters in ‘Ghost Rider’ or ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ or ‘City of Angels’ or ‘Next’ or even ‘Drive Angry,’ the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.

Like pay back-taxes to the IRS.

Directed by Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine 3-D), Drive Angry follows a man (Cage) on a quest to run down the pricks that murdered his daughter and abducted his grandchild. Producer Mike De Luca (Priest, GhostRider) promises the film will be rated a hard R and include plenty of “car parts and body parts flying at you in 3-D.”

Some of those body parts will hopefully belong to sexy costars Amber Heard (Zombieland), Charlotte Ross (“NYPD Blue”), and busty Playboy model Christa Campbell (Day of the Dead).

Drive Angry 3-D pulls into theaters on Feb. 11, 2011.

A new trailer for Platinum Dunes upcoming remake of the 1984 Wes Craven frightener A Nightmare on Elm Street has hit the web. The new clip features a glimpse at new footage and gives us a generous peek at Katie Cassidy.

Take a look:

Cassidy tells MTV

I know it’s bad to say, but I have to admit when I had this audition, I was crazy with traveling [and] ‘Melrose Place.’ I had this audition and hadn’t seen the original. It was more of a choice that wouldn’t affect anything I’d done in my audition, which was obviously what they liked and what they responded to. So, I haven’t seen any of [Robert Englund’s performances], but I will.

Cassidy’s costar Thomas Dekker, however, is quite familiar with the entire Elm Street series.

He says:

I saw it when I was 12. I’ve seen all of them; ‘Dream Warriors’ was my favorite. I mean, c’mon: Patricia Arquette, the head through the television, ‘It’s your big break into primetime bi—!’ That’s, like, one of the best moments ever. And the Dokken song!

I have no idea what a Thomas Dekker is, but I’m a card-carrying Dream Warrior too.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 is directed by Samuel Bayer and costars Rooney Mara as Nancy Thompson, Twilight’s Kellen Lutz, and Jackie Earle Haley as child molester/killer Freddy Krueger. The film arrives in theaters on April 30

Transformers 2 babe Isabel Lucas has signed on to star as the Goddess Athena in Relativity Media’s Clash of the Titans ripoff inspired fantasy adventure Immortals (previously entitled Gods of War and Dawn of War).

Lucas is the latest addition to a cast that includes John Hurt as Zeus, Mickey Rourke as King Hyperion, Twilight’s Kellan Lutz as Poseidon, Stephen Dorf as master thief Stavros, and Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto as Phaedra the oracle priestess.

Immortals began shooting this month. Tarsem Singh (The Cell) directs.

“Heroes” star Kristen Bell is kicking off her heels on April 8 to raise awareness for shoeless poor kids in far off lands none of us will ever know … unless an earthquake hits them and “LOST” is preempted for news coverage.

Bell, along with fellow actresses Heather Graham (From Hell) and Brittany Snow (Prom Night), are joining California-based company Tom Shoes for a one-day campaign urging people to go barefoot in an effort to show how awesome one’s toes feel when buried naked in a big fluffy bearskin rug painful it is to walk around without shoes.

Bell says:

I’m going barefoot for one day without shoes to raise awareness about the impact a simple pair of shoes can have on a child’s life. So join me on April 8. Take off your shoes and spread the word.

You know … a lot of kids in poverty-stricken countries often go pantless too. I think Bell, Graham, and Snow should stop half-assing this campaign and go for the full Monty … Monty means vagina, right?